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The Story that I intend to do an in-depth analysis on is breaking and entering/home invasions in BC. I picked this story looking at the high rates of breaking and entering in BC when compared to other provinces such as Alberta.
Although, there has been a decline in the rate of break-ins in BC since past five years, but the fact that the it has remained almost the same over the past two years raises many questions. I have also picked this story in order to investigate some useful ways of protecting homes.
I think many residents of BC will find this data analysis convenient as it might not only help them feel safer in the community but also help provide some assistance in solving such crimes. This data will also help narrow the numbers of breaking and entering in homes without a security alarm and those homes that are protected with an alarm system.
I found the dataset from Statistics Canada: Incident based crime statistics, by detailed violence and police services. This data was classified in terms of geography and violations and was collected from the years of 2009 to 2013.
The dataset can be found at:
The questions that I’ve collected through this dataset are:
-What areas/neighborhood are mostly at target for break-ins in BC?
-What time do most break and enter events occur?
- What sites are most targeted: apartments or homes?
-How many of the targeted sites are with or without an alarm system?
- How many break-ins incidents are reported to police?
- How many offenders are charged every year and how many of those are underage?
Good choice of a dataset, because this is certainly a topic that a lot of people care about. You can do a lot of interesting things with the data, I'm curious where the highest-risk area will be. Some of your questions seem really interesting, but I couldn't find any information about alarm systems or underage offenders in the data - that might be because one of the links didn't work for me. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great choice; I think many people would be interested in the subject. It would be very interesting to see high-risk areas located on an interactive map -- perhaps something similar to the bike theft article.
ReplyDeleteHey Huda! I think this is a great data story! It is a topic that is always relevant and homeowners are always concerned about this issue. Readers will definitely be interested in this story. You should try to get it published after you’re done! I agree with Parker that an interactive map with high risk areas plotted would be the most effective!
ReplyDeleteIs there any way you could find out the number of places that had alarm systems or not? It might be a helpful factor.
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